dergachev

OS X Screencast to animated GIF

This gist shows how to create a GIF screencast using only free OS X tools: QuickTime, ffmpeg, and gifsicle.

Instructions

To capture the video (filesize: 19MB), using the free "QuickTime Player" application:

piscisaureus

Locate the section for your github remote in the .git/config file. It looks like this:

[remote "origin"]
	fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
	url = git@github.com:joyent/node.git

Now add the line fetch = +refs/pull/*/head:refs/remotes/origin/pr/* to this section. Obviously, change the github url to match your project's URL. It ends up looking like this:

sontek

#!/bin/bash

LINES=$(tput lines)
COLUMNS=$(tput cols)

declare -A snowflakes
declare -A lastflakes

clear

jed

How to set up stress-free SSL on an OS X development machine

One of the best ways to reduce complexity (read: stress) in web development is to minimize the differences between your development and production environments. After being frustrated by attempts to unify the approach to SSL on my local machine and in production, I searched for a workflow that would make the protocol invisible to me between all environments.

Most workflows make the following compromises:

• Use HTTPS in production but HTTP locally. This is annoying because it makes the environments inconsistent, and the protocol choices leak up into the stack. For example, your web application needs to understand the underlying protocol when using the secure flag for cookies. If you don't get this right, your HTTP development server won't be able to read the cookies it writes, or worse, your HTTPS production server could pass sensitive cookies over an insecure connection.

• Use production SSL certificates locally. This is annoying

mikhailov

# NOTICE: to get Nginx+Unicorn best-practices configuration see the gist https://gist.github.com/3052776

  $ cd /usr/src
  $ wget http://nginx.org/download/nginx-1.2.1.tar.gz
  $ tar xzvf ./nginx-1.2.1.tar.gz && rm -f ./nginx-1.2.1.tar.gz

  $ wget ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/pcre-8.30.tar.gz
  $ tar xzvf pcre-8.30.tar.gz && rm -f ./pcre-8.30.tar.gz

  $ wget http://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-1.0.1c.tar.gz

jamis

# --------------------------------------------------------------------
# An implementation of Kruskal's algorithm for generating mazes.
# Fairly expensive, memory-wise, as it requires memory proportional
# to the size of the entire maze, and it's not the fastest of the
# algorithms (what with all the set and edge management is has to
# do). Also, the mazes it generates tend to have a lot of very short
# dead-ends, giving the maze a kind of "spiky" look.
# --------------------------------------------------------------------
# NOTE: the display routine used in this script requires a terminal
# that supports ANSI escape sequences. Windows users, sorry. :(

postmodern

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
#
# Proof-of-Concept exploit for Rails Remote Code Execution (CVE-2013-0156)
#
# ## Advisory
#
#   https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rubyonrails-security/61bkgvnSGTQ/discussion
#
# ## Caveats
#

andkerosine

$stack, $draws = [], {}

def method_missing *args
  return if args[0][/^to_/]
  $stack << args.map { |a| a or $stack.pop }
  $draws[$stack.pop(2)[0][0]] = args[1] if args[0] == :<
end

class Array
  def +@

lenary

$ git clone github:lenary/guides.git
Cloning into guides...
remote: Counting objects: 255, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (216/216), done.
remote: Total 255 (delta 111), reused 163 (delta 35)
Receiving objects: 100% (255/255), 1.49 MiB | 564 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (111/111), done.

$ cd guides
$ git remote -v

mathisonian

The final result: require() any module on npm in your browser console with browserify

This article is written to explain how the above gif works in the chrome (and other) browser consoles. A quick disclaimer: this whole thing is a huge hack, it shouldn't be used for anything seriously, and there are probably much better ways of accomplishing the same.

Update: There are much better ways of accomplishing the same, and the script has been updated to use a much simpler method pulling directly from browserify-cdn. See this thread for details: mathisonian/requirify#5

inspiration